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Tips for Selecting a Telehealth Partner

eVisit

When Selecting a Telehealth Partner Shared Vision Is Priority No. 1.

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Three Ways to Live Longer

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

You can do several things to “slow down” your biological clock and live longer. It’s never too late to do these ways to live longer. Having a Healthy Lifestyle. Living longer is the result of regular healthy habits, not luck. Start by modifying the small decisions you make every day to provide for your physical and mental wellness as you age.

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Telemedicine for Beginners: How to Introduce Staff to Telehealth

AMD Telemedicine

This article was originally published in March 2019 but was updated in June 2022. While telemedicine is a relatively known technology in the medical field, there are still nurses, physicians, and other healthcare professionals who are unfamiliar with how to best apply it. Although telehealth is widely used, there are certainly special considerations and staff training for telehealth that need to take place to ensure its sustainability.

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Rise of remote patient monitoring reveals the true value of telehealth

Mobi Health News

Telehealth was vital to the pandemic response, with much of the enabling technology already in place. Its role in maintaining care and monitoring patient health at a time of shielding, social distancing and remote working anticipated wider benefits.

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HIPAA Compliance: Can Your Organization Avoid Costly Government Penalties and Fines?

Colington Consulting was established in 2013 and helps organizations achieve HIPAA compliance and ensures clients stay current with the latest enforcement trends. We provide a full range of HIPAA compliance services and consulting. What separates us from our competitors is our knowledge of HIPAA compliance regulations and their application to each of our client’s particular scenarios and requirements.

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St. Luke's University Health proves telehealth is as good as in-person care

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

St. Luke's University Health Network realized it needed technology that could help expand care across its 14 hospitals throughout Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey spanning both urban and rural areas. THE PROBLEM. The organization was looking for a way to not only expand network coverage but also to reduce time to consult. It also wanted to expand access to care whenever patients needed it, which St.

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How school-based telemedicine can ease healthcare’s COVID burden

AMD Telemedicine

This article was originally published in January 2021 but was updated in June 2022. How school-based telemedicine can help the healthcare system navigate the pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has turned the healthcare system upside down, becoming one of the largest global health crises we may face in our lifetime. It has challenged not only the opportunity for patients in need to receive care, but it’s had a negative impact on the way major hospitals and other centers of care can provide assistanc

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LiveMetric receives FDA 510(k) for watch-like blood pressure monitor

Mobi Health News

The cuffless device uses a sensor array over the radial artery to produce a pressure waveform that's used to determine systolic and diastolic blood pressure.

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HIMSSCast: ATA CEO says telehealth future is hybrid, outlines policy priorities and challenges

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

Ann Mond Johnson is one of the top telehealth experts in the country. As CEO of the American Telemedicine Association, her work covers every aspect of this technological delivery of healthcare that has gone mainstream because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this informative podcast, Johnson talks about the hybrid model that may be the future of telehealth, what will be necessary to establish telehealth as a permanent modality in care delivery, current telehealth policy priorities and challenges, an

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Implementing Digital Strategies Helps Re-define the Healthcare Industry

Healthcare IT Today

The following is a guest article by Linda Comp-Noto, Division President, Healthcare Enterprise Operations at Teleperformance. Digital transformation continues to dominate the headlines. Digitizing content helps companies across almost every industry increase efficiency, improve workflow, reduce costs, and raise productivity. For the healthcare industry – an industry that is conservative by nature – undergoing a transformation presents an opportunity to implement digital strategies across the boa

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The Secret to Supercharging Your Organizations Communications

Effective collaboration among all care team members is critical to delivering better patient outcomes. A key element to achieving effective collaboration is through the implementation of a clinical communication and collaboration platform. In a fast-paced, high-stress and critical environment, people tend to do whatever gets the job done. Therefore will scramble and use the systems, people, or processes around them to get an outcome more quickly - which can often be at the expense of quality.

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Eight new technology offerings for older adults

Aging in Place Technology Watch

Are you starting to notice a pattern, so to speak? There seems to be a growing number of tech offerings that can see, sense, detect, and learn about behavioral patterns as part of new tools for older adults and their caregivers. Changes like these and others in this space will be addressed in a new report launching this month: "The Future of Sensors and Predictive Analytics for Older Adults.

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Q&A: Why adopting digital therapeutics requires a healthcare paradigm shift

Mobi Health News

Happify Health chief strategy officer Chris Wasden discusses the company's partnership strategy, the business environment for digital therapeutics and how to encourage physician uptake.

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CASual Conversations – Episode 1

Corp Advisory Solutions

CASual Conversations – Episode 1 Video Transcript: << Zippy Intro Music >> Michael Lamm: Hi, my name is Michael Lamm from Corporate Advisory Solutions. I’m here with Amy Warrington, our digital marketing specialist that we have on the CAS team. Just recently we launched a new service line and exit prep service line that. The post CASual Conversations – Episode 1 appeared first on Corporate Advisory Solutions.

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The Hospital Room of the Future

Healthcare IT Today

We’ve been talking about the “hospital room of the future” for a while now. I guess it’s safe to say the future is here in many regards. However, when I recently sat down with Jeff Fallon, Chairman and CEO at eVideon he was more excited about the industry than he’s ever been before. In fact, he talks about how things are different today than they have been in the past (Partial Spoiler Alert: One example is the EHR data is there to trigger actions).

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Ambiq’s neuralSPOT HeartKit™ enables Real-Time Heart Monitoring AI Applications

Ambiq®, a leading developer of ultra-low-power semiconductor solutions that deliver a multifold increase in energy efficiency, introduces HeartKit, its latest addition to neuralSPOT. This optimized AI model enables running various real-time heart monitoring applications to help users and their healthcare providers quickly identify any irregular events to take necessary actions.

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EMR Best Practices for Remote Providers

Iris Telehealth

Every healthcare organization has to strike a balance between ease of use and security when it comes to their EMR. And, if an organization is utilizing a virtual solution, like telepsychiatry , there are several special considerations to keep in mind. Thankfully, there are best practices your organization can implement to ensure your teams are set up for success.

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Study: Decentralized and remote tech increases interest in clinical trial participation

Mobi Health News

More than 80% of cancer patients and survivors who responded to the survey were willing to use the majority of remote interventions, like oral medications delivered to the home, electronic informed consent and wearables.

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What Features to Look for in Remote Patient Monitoring Software

Health Recovery Solutions

When it comes to finding the right remote patient monitoring software for your telehealth program, the process can be daunting. How do you know which features matter and which features don’t? How do you evaluate if a vendor will be the right fit for your needs? Throughout this process, your research may have unearthed more questions than it answers–like what is synchronous vs. asynchronous telehealth?

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Direct Primary Care Engages Physicians as Much as Patients

Healthcare IT Today

Since the arrival of COVID-19 it is rare to hear physicians talk about their work with excitement and enthusiasm. Yet, that is exactly what happens when you sit down for a discussion about Direct Primary Care (DPC). This new model of care is engaging physicians as much as the patients they serve. The only question is whether this enthusiasm will continue to spread.

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The 2023 Behavioral Health Industry Report

This report explores current issues in the behavioral health industry in 2023. Topics covered include quantitative statistics describing the overall increase in behavioral health issues, the impact of psychologist and staff burnout, how HIPAA compliance is once again at the top of our minds & much more!

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Wearables and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Determine Biological Aging

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

Chronological age or age due to the passage of time is a poor predictor of health and survival or life expectancy. Some individuals can still run until they are 70 years old, while others in their 50s can barely stand. . Growing old is always equated with a slew of undesirable changes– diminished functional capacity, less hair, wrinkled skin, and not to mention the diseases that come along with aging.

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Google says it will delete users' location history for abortion clinic visits

Mobi Health News

The tech giant said the update will also apply to places like counseling centers, domestic violence shelters and addiction treatment facilities.

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6 Awesome High-Protein Breakfast Meals

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Protein should be a vital component of every breakfast, whether you are looking to lose weight or want to power through your day. According to the American Society for Nutrition, eating protein in the first meal of the day helps increase muscle mass, optimize calorie burning and manage your blood sugar. So what are some […]. The post 6 Awesome High-Protein Breakfast Meals appeared first on Healthystic.

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Happy 4th of July

Healthcare IT Today

Happy Fourth of July everyone! We’re taking the day off to celebrate the holiday. I hope you have a great day with family and/or friends and that you get to enjoy the summer. We’ll be back again tomorrow with more great health IT content!

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Patient Engagement & Cultural Competence Training Roadmap: A Guide to Reducing Staff Burnout

Speaker: Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, Patient Engagement and Cultural Competence Specialist

If you’re a healthcare provider, chances are you have experienced symptoms of burnout yourself or have colleagues who are currently facing extreme career dissatisfaction. One of the many ways to partially alleviate burnout is active patient engagement. By engaging with patients to understand their needs and preferences, healthcare providers can develop treatments tailored to the individual patient.

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A Gathering of Transformation Leaders

LeanIX

Companies today find themselves in a state of continuous transformation. They migrate systems to the cloud. They develop new products, adopt new business models, and enter new markets. They merge with and acquire other companies. They grow.

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Payment company Cedar lays off 24% of workforce

Mobi Health News

In a post on LinkedIn, CEO and cofounder Florian Otto said the cuts will allow the company to "adapt to current market realities, and re-organize ourselves for what we want to achieve following last year's acquisition of OODA Health.

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10 Vital Health Tips for Veterans

Health and Wellness Blog | Uplifting People To Live A Healthier Life

Veterans are exposed to various physical and mental health hazards during their services. Veterans serve our country in many ways, and their health is often sacrificed in the line of duty. Unfortunately, this can lead to several health problems later in life. These include everything from combat-related injuries to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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The Real Core of the Physician Burnout Problem and What to Do About It

Healthcare IT Today

When I watch doctors and nurses on Twitter talk about burnout, one common theme emerges. Another wellness program or yoga room is not going to help. Instead of making clinicians more resilient (they’re already extremely resilient), we need to address the core problems in healthcare that are causing burnout. One of those core causes of burnout is the documentation burden and poorly created EHR interfaces which are built around billing rather than the physician or nurse workflow.

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How to Battle Layoffs: The Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp

Facing layoffs in your organization? Support your team members' career transition with Career Star Accelerator Bootcamp: Custom Resume & LinkedIn Revamp + 6 Weeks of Career Coaching. Our certified resume writers will create job search-winning resumes and LinkedIn profiles while they work with a career coach to learn unique strategies to stand out, attract the right employers, automate their job search, and land their dream job.

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6 FAQs about Diabetic Retinopathy

DrKumo Remote Patient Monitoring

In adults, diabetes is the primary cause of new incidents of blindness. As the population grows, this is becoming a more significant issue. As the number of people living with diabetes rises, so does the number of people with vision problems. Diabetic retinopathy is an eye disease caused by diabetes. A recent CDC research found that diabetic retinopathy was prevalent, affecting nearly everyone with diabetes.

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WebMD acquires analytics specialist Mercury Healthcare

Mobi Health News

As part of the deal, Mercury will join WebMD Provider, the company’s business focused on consumer/physician engagement and clinical education.

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e-Prescribing Can Help Alleviate the Strain Caused by Increased Demand for Mental Health and Addictions Services

Canadian Health Infoway

Canadians have long faced a myriad of challenges accessing mental health and addictions services, including not knowing where to go for help, long wait times, limited coverage through provincial health insurance and high costs. These challenges were only exacerbated by the pandemic, which brought on an urgent increase in the demand for these services.